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When I think of densely packed populations, I think of London, Mumbai, Hong Kong or Singapore. What's so odd to me in the data is that this virus, now over 400,000 people....seems to be hitting the US even as the rest of the nations slow it down. Is it that other nations aren't reporting? What are other nations doing that the US isn't?
When I think of densely packed populations, I think of London, Mumbai, Hong Kong or Singapore. What's so odd to me in the data is that this virus, now over 400,000 people....seems to be hitting the US even as the rest of the nations slow it down. Is it that other nations aren't reporting? What are other nations doing that the US isn't?
As a country, we aren't unified as to how we confront and battle this virus. Nine states still aren't officially participating in mandated social distancing. Nations that got hit hard with this early and rebounded, enlisted a united opposition. Our leadership sat on their brains, hoping the Sun would shine and we would wake up all good again. There are many reasons why we are failing compared to nations with a lot less money, knowledge and wherewithal. Our medical communities fighting the battles upfront still need more testing, amongst other things. If we had more testing our numbers likely would be astronomically greater.
Maybe that's it in a nutshell?
As a country, we aren't unified as to how we confront and battle this virus. Nine states still aren't officially participating in mandated social distancing. Nations that got hit hard with this early and rebounded, enlisted a united opposition. Our leadership sat on their brains, hoping the Sun would shine and we would wake up all good again. There are many reasons why we are failing compared to nations with a lot less money, knowledge and wherewithal. Our medical communities fighting the battles upfront still need more testing, amongst other things. If we had more testing our numbers likely would be astronomically greater.
Maybe that's it in a nutshell?
Riffing off of this a bit, there’s testing issues. We can only report what we’ve tested as “confirmed”, per general guidelines. Bombay might be an example of lagging testing, although I honestly don’t know what India’s testing capacity is.
The US is a culturally free country, where East Asian countries generally are more “obedient” to stay-at-home orders. South Korea is a relatively newly minted success story, and its likely a lot of folks there still know how to get by on relatively little, thereby not needing to just go to the store; Singapore is about as close to a benevolent authoritarian government as I can think of, and Singaporeans will take the health measures very seriously.
It’s hard to find a good analogue to the US. Italy is kinda close in that it is one of those places kind of used to just kind of ignoring the government, but their demographics don’t match up, and they generally live a lot closer to each other in intergenerational households than we do.
Differential rates and manners of travel. Check out a map of CoViD cases-- highest rates of infection mostly centered on international business/travel hubs.
I hate this too w/ the US having so many more cases!
Here's another aspect that I also think & some people may not like to hear this:
The US has quite an overabundant, (unnecessary) importance on physical appearance. Everyone's so into good looks, being sexy, hot bodies, etc. Therefore, no one here has really started wearing masks until right now in which states are FINALLY starting to make it mandatory to wear them. My county's made it effective 2 days ago.
But all along, I think everyone thought they were too cute to wear some "ugly old masks" to cover their "beautiful" faces. Everyone needed to have stopped being so haughty & above it all & put those masks on 1-2 mos sooner at least for their own safety.
You look at those Asian countries such as Japan. They've ALWAYS worn masks way, way before covid-19 started. They can put their pride & looks aside & have better common sense to wear masks & stay healthy.
I hate this too w/ the US having so many more cases!
Here's another aspect that I also think & some people may not like to hear this:
The US has quite an overabundant, (unnecessary) importance on physical appearance. Everyone's so into good looks, being sexy, hot bodies, etc. Therefore, no one here has really started wearing masks until right now in which states are FINALLY starting to make it mandatory to wear them. My county's made it effective 2 days ago.
But all along, I think everyone thought they were too cute to wear some "ugly old masks" to cover their "beautiful" faces. Everyone needed to have stopped being so haughty & above it all & put those masks on 1-2 mos sooner at least for their own safety.
You look at those Asian countries such as Japan. They've ALWAYS worn masks way, way before covid-19 started. They can put their pride & looks aside & have better common sense to wear masks & stay healthy.
That my be southern CA's excuse but no one wore them here in CT either until a few days ago. I still don't see too many people wearing them because it's not mandatory. People here probably wear them in the grocery store when they go. Here it's more a matter of feeling embarrassed and not wanting to be ridiculed for wearing a mask.
I hate this too w/ the US having so many more cases!
Here's another aspect that I also think & some people may not like to hear this:
The US has quite an overabundant, (unnecessary) importance on physical appearance. Everyone's so into good looks, being sexy, hot bodies, etc. Therefore, no one here has really started wearing masks until right now in which states are FINALLY starting to make it mandatory to wear them. My county's made it effective 2 days ago.
But all along, I think everyone thought they were too cute to wear some "ugly old masks" to cover their "beautiful" faces. Everyone needed to have stopped being so haughty & above it all & put those masks on 1-2 mos sooner at least for their own safety.
You look at those Asian countries such as Japan. They've ALWAYS worn masks way, way before covid-19 started. They can put their pride & looks aside & have better common sense to wear masks & stay healthy.
That is because most people HAVE masks already in Japan. They had a massive reforestation project after WWII and only planted two types of trees. The cedars release a lot of pollen and cause many people to have really bad hay fever, so people wear the masks to help with that. Here we don’t have that problem since we haven’t gone massive reforestation projects with only one type of tree.
Right now masks are hard for people to get and not everyone has the fabric lying around to make them easily. I think that is probably more the reason people aren’t wearing them. I have a lot of fabric and know how to sew, but some people don’t wear bandanas, don’t sew, and don’t have much fabric around that they can use to make masks.
That my be southern CA's excuse but no one wore them here in CT either until a few days ago. I still don't see too many people wearing them because it's not mandatory. People here probably wear them in the grocery store when they go. Here it's more a matter of feeling embarrassed and not wanting to be ridiculed for wearing a mask.
Well, you just supported part of my point. They're embarrassed because masks LOOK weird, funny, odd, like the odd person out, etc. to them. So it is about how they LOOK even in CT, even in the lowest population coutry town, even in NY, even in HI, everywhere. They don't want to look like they're sickly or something in which people may get away from them. This reminds me of the student in high school who's all embarrassed for having to wear his braces w/ the whole neck wires all around his neck. Even though it's for his health/well being, he thinks it looks odd, nerdy, horrible, etc. & doesn't want to be made fun of.
So you just said it to elaborate on my point: People are too embarrassed & don't want to be ridiculed.
Again, everyone better stop caring how masks look & focus on their health & well being. Who cares how it looks. I'll be in googles, a face shield, mask, etc. out in public if it's going to protect me from some deadly disease. People are dying out there by the thousands & they're young people w/ no underlying health issues. It's like a hit or miss if you'll die or survive from this & I don't want those odds AT ALL.
So notice how many times I bolded the word LOOK/LOOKS above?
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